Rough surf no deterrent to US, South Korean Marines practicing amphibious landings
Roughly 9,500 US Marines and sailors and 3,500 of their South Korean counterparts are taking part in this year’s Ssangyong exercise.
Roughly 9,500 US Marines and sailors and 3,500 of their South Korean counterparts are taking part in this year’s Ssangyong exercise.
Monarch Joint Venture, a nonprofit that supports butterfly populations, has been working with the Defense Department to monitor the insects at dozens of military installations in the U.S.
The Navy should rethink its protocols for analyzing groundwater samples near the defunct Red Hill underground fuel storage facility in Honolulu in response to questions over testing methods and a chemical plume in the aquifer, a municipal engineer said recently.
Five years after California’s worst modern maritime disaster, relatives of the Conception boat fire victims are angry about what they call the slow pace of accountability, while a top U.S. safety official says the Coast Guard continues to stall on reforms.
Two U.S. Marines from an amphibious assault ship visiting a city in western Turkey are safe after they were assaulted Monday by a group of protesters who have attacked American military personnel in previous years.
The USS Laboon returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on Sunday after a challenging nine-month deployment to hostile waters providing deterrence and defense to U.S. partners in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The driver who allegedly was intoxicated when he hit and killed National Hockey League star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, is a high-ranking military officer also employed at a substance abuse treatment network headquartered in Pennsylvania.
The Coast Guard Cutter Campbell returned to homeport in Newport, R.I., last week after 73 days at sea on patrol in the Windward Passage.
Two airmen received Air and Space Commendation medals at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., on Aug. 23 for their heroic efforts which led to saving a drowning man’s life at Panama Beach, Fla., in March.
The record number of flooding events on the Yard this year alone poses an “existential threat” to the waterfront grounds, said Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Yvette Davids.
Only about 23 percent of all Americans aged 17-24 meet the Army’s standards. But recruiters are also searching for prospects at a time when Americans’ confidence in their country is crumbling.
The airfield now features 3,600 feet of asphalt runway and concrete turnarounds at each end specially designed to handle the high heat produced by vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It can now handle any aircraft in the Marines’ arsenal.
Yaste assumed command of the USS John S. McCain in October 2023. His removal was attributed to a “loss of confidence.”
Shortly after settling on federal charges, Austal USA has inaugurated a new shipbuilding program for the Coast Guard. Rear Adm. Mike Campbell called the program “the largest and most significant acquisition in the history of the Coast Guard.”
The Navy felt pressured to loosen requirements, including accepting recruits with lower test scores and bringing in recruits who didn’t have high school diplomas or a GED diploma or certificate.
U.S. military spouses may soon be searching for apartments and the best place for pierogis in Poznan, home of the first permanent American base in Poland.
The absence of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific poses no immediate risk to regional security but exposes the U.S. Navy’s inability to project a complete global presence, a defense expert told Stars and Stripes.
The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military’s Gaza pier project called the mission the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced. Even so, Col. Sam Miller said the Army learned a number of lessons during the four-month mission.
Gokhan Gun, a civilian engineer for the Air Force, will be held in jail as he awaits trial on charges he mishandled more than 150 pages of classified documents, a federal judge ruled Thursday.